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Expect brooding dissonant guitars and stilted lyrics from indie-rockers Blonde Redhead, the New York trio who just released their seventh album, and 4AD debut, titled Misery Is a Butterfly. Texan alt rock band Secret Machines open. Tickets $16. 18+. 9 p.m. The Paradise Rock Club, 969 Commonwealth Ave., Boston...
Boston’s retro rock band Runner and the Thermodynamics are all set to release their self-titled debut on this night of explosive guitars and no frills rock n’ roll. If the buzz they have generated around the local scene is any indication, it’ll be show overflowing with excitement and fun. Like-minded bands the Mittens, Unbusted and the December Sound also take the stage. Tickets $8. 18+. 9:15 p.m. T.T. the Bear’s Place...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players are putting on Iolanthe, this season’s offering of Gilbert and Sullivan zany operatic musing. The operetta follows the story of a band of fairies, residents of Fairyland, who attempt to reunite the half-fairy, half-mortal son of Iolanthe with his true love. Tickets: Evenings $12/$10 regular, $8/$6 students and seniors; Matinees $10/$8 regular, $6/$4 students and seniors. Through Saturday, April 17. Agassiz Theater...
...mostly for its choice of Athenian forebears—abandoning the region’s mid-90s psychedelic boom, here the Elves seem to be doing their best R.E.M. The album has a warm, folksy sound, immersed in twanging banjo and shuffling guitar. The consequence of this, from a band used to more complex arrangements, is that Beggar Boys ultimately suffers from boredom, especially around the middle of the album where simplistic roots-rock anthems like “Evil Eye” are so unengaging that it’s hard to believe that this is a band with...
Long before the Bloody Lovelies released an album, they were already pulling in thousands of dollars on MP3.com. A listen of the Bloody Lovelies’ debut Some Truth and a Little Money offers up plenty of reasons why the then-unsigned band found itself on Mainstream Radio Index’s charts alongside Sheryl Crow, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Pearl...